Is there a way to install DragonFly via network (w/o CD) ?

[Simon 'corecode' Schubert]

On 13.10.2004, at 12:56, Adrian Bocaniciu wrote:
	In the existing DragonFly snapshots, at least in 20040913, I  have 
not seen any equivalent of the FreeBSD mfsroot, so I presume that 
someone who wants to do a network installation must build a mfs image 
file by reading the instructions for the manual installation and 
copying all the files listed there as required (boot0cfg, fdisk, 
disklabel, newfs, dd, mount etc.) together with a shell in which to 
boot and ftp and tar in order to substitute the copying from CD with 
copying of archives from an FTP server and extracting them on the 
target computer.
We're no longer using mfs images for installation. Installing just via 
network is considerably easy - you only need a tftpd and nfsd. You 
might argue that nfs is too much to set up; still tftp isn't capable of 
more than transferring files from one directory.

So installation should look like:

Have a box that runs tftp, dhcp and nfs (okay, could be split into 
three boxes, too). If you don't want to change an existing setup, just 
boot a DragonFly live cd and set up stuff there. Have a DragonFly live 
cd mounted at $CDROOT:

cat <__EOF >> /etc/inetd.conf
tftp    dgram   udp     wait    root    /usr/libexec/tftpd      tftpd 
-l -s $CDROOT"
__EOF
rcrestart inetd
cat <__EOF >> /etc/dhcpd.conf
filename "/boot/pxeboot";
next-server $MYIP;
option root-path "$CDROOT";
__EOF
killall dhcpd; dhcpd
cat <__EOF >> /etc/exports
$CDROOT -alldirs -ro -maproot=0 $INSTALLIP
__EOF
rcrestart nfsserver
rcrestart rpcbind
rcrestart mountd

That should do about the deal I guess. Maybe we could/should add this 
setup to the live cd so that it can be easily switched on (in the 
installer?). Then the remote system could even be controlled by the 
local running installer, no?

cheers
  simon
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